Satire Does Not Always Involve Humor. The Most Powerful Satire Never Does.

[MADem]

186. You're missing the fact that the "guy on the street" wasn't the target of those guys.

He just got in the way. The targets WERE behind those locked doors, and those doors were locked because the members of that publishing house had conducted a "risk assessment" and thought it was a good idea to limit access to their workcenter--to keep those "bad guys" out.

No one is saying "shut up." The fact that you can bore in to one guy's personal view of the risk assessment associated with the publication of this weekly magazine though, is curious.

And as for "curious," I find it interesting that you persist in affiliating me with this guy, for reasons unclear to me. The Charlie Hebdo crew died opposing any sort of censorship whatsoever, and you're trying desperately to push everyone into a groupthink mold of your own construction. I think that tack is not too successful for you. People have a right to hold their own opinions without being excoriated. People are DEAD, here--the only "right" opinion is "Gee, those guys with the guns shouldn't have done that." It doesn't really matter what you think, what other posters here on DU think, what "assorted Muslims" think--last time I checked, killing people was a societal No-No, and that really is the bottom line.

That said, crazy people who are dumb enough to kill people over frigging DRAWINGS are not thinking in reasonable fashion, so opining about what may have caused them to think that opening fire on a conference room was a good idea is not "victim blaming." It's RISK ASSESSMENT, and if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to change my view on that, no matter how much you get personal, cast aspersions, or pull any of the other "DU tricks" to try to game the conversation. We're well past the "Agree to disagree" phase, here--you want to beat up one DUer and use me as a proxy for him, and I'm just not having that.